Title: Puppy Love 47/50 - Blue
Pairings: Spike/Xander
Appropriate Ratings: NC17 overall, this chapter... PG13
Warnings: Nothing really
Disclaimers: Not my characters. I make no money off this, I'm just playing. I promise to give them a bath and thorough cleaning when I’m done! Joss Whedon is my lord and Master. All hail Joss Whedon.
Short Summary: Puppy gets a precious reward.
Word Count: 882 (as per Word Count)
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Spike woke him up earlier than usual and Xander mumbled into his pillow, not a morning person. Spike smacked his fully healed ass and told him to get out of bed. Xander sighed and rubbed his eyes clear of sleep and swung his legs off the side of the bed. He slid to his knees and yawned and spread his thighs, hands behind his back, once more grateful Spike had eventually used that unguent that had just healed him overnight. He had to learn his lesson after all, so he had to suffer, but kneeling was definitely easier after the use of the unguent.
“You’ll like this puppy, come,” his Master called to him and patted his leg, pointing to the floor at his heel and started to walk to the door. Xander scrambled to follow, noting, with some confusion, that Spike hadn’t needed to unlock the door to let them out for once, and he wasn’t even leashed! He followed closely, being led in a direction he wasn’t familiar with. Finally when his knees were hitting cold tile, he realized something was up and lifted his head.
They were in the main foyer, Xander recognized it from his mad dash to get out of here that day, so long ago. He remembered his lessons well from that day. Spike opened the door and led Xander outside. The porch was huge and very shady so the vampire could easily sit and watch his pet play.
“Go on puppy, you know you can’t leave, I know you wanted to get your tan back, go on, get out there.” Spike nudged him with a foot.
“Master? Really? You… you aren’t afraid I’ll just run?” Xander stayed on his knees beside his Master, just inside the door, afraid.
“Got the fence still up, and I like you better with a tan. I trust you puppy, I know you know the rules.” Spike smiled down at him and pet his head, then urged him forward.
Xander smiled and slowly crawled outside, timidly into the sunlight, his pale skin almost glowing under the sun. He crawled down the verandah steps and crawled blinking into the light. His Master stayed well back out of the sun, deep in the shade of the verandah and smiled down at Xander as the boy just flopped on his back on the grass and looked up at the clouds, not too far away from where his Master was sitting.
Xander looked up at the blue, blue sky, dotted with clouds and felt tears grow in his eyes. He never thought he’d ever see the sun again, never mind a blue sky. He got up and ran over to his Master, kissing his feet. “Thank you Master, thank you, I never thought to see the blue sky again.”
“You done then? Thought you humans preferred a little more sun than that. Get out there, don’t want to have to start buying you vitamin D supplements and injections. You’re to go outside for at least an hour a day, sometimes more, never less. I want you nice and golden brown, so get your arse out there!” Spike smiled down at him and ruffled his hair before the human scrambled back into the sun.
Xander knelt and leaned back until he was resting on his arms, and just drank in the sun, letting the tears silently fall. He really had no complaints now, nothing real. Spike really was the perfect Master for him.
Spike watched his pet on the thick lush grass and smiled. He’d always meant the boy to go out into the sun, and now that he could trust him, he would. He’d get sun every day if that’s what he wanted, which he obviously did. The only regret Spike had was not being able to be in the sun with his boy, not being able to play with him, stroke his sun warmed skin, nothing… At least the boy would tan again, and he wasn’t joking about vitamin D shots, he wasn’t going to have his puppy get sick!
Xander was sprawled again, and called out to his Master, “Master, next time, can I bring some crayons or something out here? Maybe some comic books?”
Spike chuckled, “How about we put together an ‘outside’ bag for you, full of stuff to do in the sun. I don’t recommend the crayons though, those’ll melt out under the sun in no time flat.”
Xander smiled and looked up at the clouds. “Yes Master, thank you Master.” Master I love you. It was right on the tip of his tongue to say it, but he held it back, sure his Master could never feel the same for a pet and he didn’t want to be crushingly disappointed. He could love his Master in secret if he had to, grateful for everything he’d done, everything he’d given, for the life he now had thanks to the vampire.
Xander looked over at his Master and smiled then looked straight up again, hands behind his head. He was truly happy, for the first time ever in his life he was as happy as he’d ever been, more, ever so much more happy then he’d ever been. His Master was the best thing that had ever happened to him.
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